Council Bluffs Nonpareil (Newspaper) - April 12, 1956, Council Bluffs, Iowa Council Bluffs and Clearing and cooler Thursday night tows in lower 30s Friday partly cloudy little warmer in upper 50s COUNCIL VOL 103 4061 COUNCIL IOWA THURSDAY EVENING APRIL 12 1956 MICE I CINTi Inspecting Sprinkling System Rejects Claim Against Harlan Parking Heter Firm Sought Owed HARLAN A Federal Court of Appeals has recommended that the Duncan Parking Meter Com- against the City of Harlan be rejected it was learned Thursday In its action the Court of peals at St Louis Tuesday re- versed an earlier Federal District Court ruling awarding the sum to the Chicago firm The ruling involves partial ment on 160 parking meters in- stalled at Harlan in 1952 at a cost of The firm began installing the meters on March 31 The ordinance providing for the meters did not take effect until the following May 6 Under a rental arrangement the firm was to receive payment out of meter receipts The con- tract provided however that the city had an option to terminate the lease within 30 days after the meters had been in operation one full year On June 3 1954 the city gave notice that it was exercising its option although was still owed on the meters The company then filed a suit in Federal Dis- Court maintaining that the city had failed to exercise its option within the time limit fied in the contract In replying the city contended that motorists began using the unbonded meters as soon as they were Therefore Ihr city contended its notice was filed within tho specified time The District Court then ruled that the firm was entitled to the balance of the full amount Rerord INDEPENDENCE Mo General Conference of the Church of Day Saints approved ing for this year and 1937 to the conference Wednesday voted a budget of for and for 1957 The church's expenditures last were Included in the budget is a special grant for College Iowa budgets do not include the special appropriation of for Greenland College Boot Floated Fine Car Trailer Didn't OKLAHOMA CITY JP Police Officer C L boat floated fine in nearby Lake Hefner his car and er didn't failed as he backed down a ramp to the water and he kept right on going The policeman swam to safety then recruited help to fish the auto out of 20 feet of water are Park Commissioner Wayne Fariday and Supt John L Gross Gets Drink At Farm All Out Predict Eisenhower Veto Effective Moy I New Sprinkling System In Park Given Test Run The grass in Bayliss Park much of it brown from lack of its first drink day from the new underground sprinkling Park Supt John L Christensen said his department was testing the operation to see if it works out all right j The underground system was i installed earlier this year as part of a general plan to dress up Bayliss Park The area has been reseeded in spots and new wood and flowering trees have been planted Christensen said the kler system still has a few bugs in it He said the initial tests should show whether the type of sprinklers now being used can cover the whole park Park Board member Wayne Bank Business Better 55 Deposits And Loans Are Both Up In Bank deposits loans and re- sources in Council Bluffs are con- to exceed 1955 figures showed Thursday Deposits were up over a year ago Loans had increased and total resources had grown These changes were revealed as the comptroller of currency issued a call for a report of con- ditions on national banks and the federal Reserve Board asked the information from its These arc the comparative bank Total and dLsrounts Total 204 STATE SAVINGS and COUNCIL BLUFFS SAVINGS 940 and 21.1 24 CITY NATIONAL and Assign Dovies Judge N Davies Fargo hai been assigned tn preside over the of Federal Court starting lit Davenport next Wednesday Judge William F Riley of Des Moines is in Included In the calendar win be actions brought this year m the Keokuk division ot tbt Ian Met Todays Chuckle Thin should be busy for of A lot of people don't Mem to have all of theirs April April Fariday said some changes may be made in the system before it goes into regular operation The Park Board estimated the total cost of the Bayliss Park renovation at between and Nancy's Mother State's Witness Everything Seemed Happy At Parkers Carter story an LINCOLN If The mother of the slain Nancy Parker testified Thursday everything seemed to be happy at the Parker home Mrs Parker wrote home larly but never discussed any marriage problems with said Mrs Robert Morrison Jr of Des Moines Mrs Morrison and her husband a music teacher in Des Moines public schools were called as state's witnesses in the first de- gree murder trial of Darrel F Parker 24 former Lincoln city forester Parker is charged with strangling his wife at their home here Dec 14 Apparent Harmony Both of the testified as to the apparent harmony in the Parker household In response to a question by Morrison said I say that Darrel was a sub- missive milquetoast type of in- dividual I wouldn't say he was exactly aggressive but he had a mind of his Morrison said The submissive milquetoast description had been applied to Continental Keller Sold To Omaha Group The Continental Keller Co pi- Council Bluffs furniture store has been sold to ft group of Omaha men headed bv I nine Jerome man Ratt Announcement of the sale was made Thursday by Julius feld president and Ungar secretary of Continent M Keller The sale completed Wednesday afternoon is effective May 1 Cohn to Manage Store I Cohn who will become mana- ger of the local store said the name Continental Keller will retained All present employes will be retained Jean W Miner now sales and advertising mana- ger of the firm will become manager of the store The Omaha men are now all in the management of the Nebraska Furniture Mart in Omaha and the American ture Center nt Lincoln with Mrs Rose Blumkin of Omaha Acquisition of Continental ler is in line with our w ish to ex- pand operations in the ture floor covering and appliance field in the greater Omaha cil Bluffs and Lincoln said Cohn Cohn added that plans are now under way to expand the stock of furniture floor covering and applicances at the Council Bluffs store Dates Back To 1906 History of the local store dates hark to 1906 when Julius father of and Julius feld founded the Continental and Carpet Co In it to the was consolidated with the Keller Furniture Co and took the name of Continental Keller The entire building was modeled In recent years and a new front built Ungar he will continue to remain at the store for nn nite time He said he and feld who has recently recovered from an Illness will continue to live in Council Bluffs The Nebraska Mart has been in Omaha since The group acquired the Lincoln store in To Register May 3 For Kindergarten Kindergarten registration day in all Council Bluffs public schools has been set for Mny 3 Raymond W Jones director of curriculum announced Thursday All parents expecting to enroll children in the beginner this year should go to the school in their district on that day Jones said A copy of the child's birth certificate will be required Any youngster who will be 5 years old on Oct 15 or before is eligible for entrance Those who will be 5 from Oct 16 to Nov 15 Pisgah Fails Demos Engineer Successful Vote Israel Egypt Make Pledge Agree To Refrain From Hostile Acts NATIONS NY U N Secretary Jeneral eunty Council Thursday that both Israel and have agreed to refrain from hostile nets against each other except in self-defense The pledges were made ever before the air in which an let plane was reported shot down by Israeli craft now In Cairo on a special Middle pence sion made his report when he transmitted to the Security cil a series of communications he had with the leaders of Israel and Egypt count f fnr Dies At Muscatine IP C germann 80 pioneer button here and president at the Hawkeye Pearl Button Co died early Thursday at a tine hospital Max Towle in explaining what he termed a false confession ob- by brow beating methods At Morrison Home Mrs Morrison told how spent five days at the Morrison home following his wife's death Darrell was not taking opiates or sedatives that I know Mrs Morrison said Defense counsel previously had referred to Parker's having been under opiates on a doctor's pre- scription at the time his signed statement was taken Don't Score of and Israel Hashed Thursday and Irael claimed blood An Israeli army spokesman an- fighters in- four jets in a flight northward li territory shot down one a British made Vampire on Israel's soil other thiee planes caped he Our planes re- safely to base Tins first combat of the current ci IMS For Council to 1955 Injuries Iowa maturity tests The tests will be given two weeks prior to the j opening of school I If parents wish to have their children take trev they also should register on May 3 Jones stated The registration is to help administrators anticipate the of new pupils they will receive in the fall Last year enrollment ran ly over 1.000 Jones expects this number will be duplicated again this year Nebraska Speaker LINCOLN If Dr Frank C Baxter professor of English at the University of Southern fornia is the scheduled speaker for the annual University of Nebraska Honors Convocation April 17 in the Coliseum attacks by Arab commando raiders aground Wednesday night in one of which three li school children and a teacher were killed at prayer Angered Israeli security forces pressed a hunt for the raiders and clamor for retaliations mounted Cut Off Phone Conversations Utah If The Utah Basin Telephone Assn has an to long-winded conversations on telephones It has installed a device in seven Utah communities which warns party line users after four You have one minute to finish your conversation At the end of the minute the connection automatically is cut Of Coast A Romantic Reunion For Grace And Prince MONTE American film star Grace Kelly greeted Monaco's Prince Rainier HI with a big smile and darling day as they staged romantic reunion on the blue ean Grace and the man the marry week were reunited on yacht Dm O juat from hto Mny principality The 9 oM Ms Ing white craft reporters from America The only immediate kissing was a light one Rainier quickly ed on tile future Princess slender hand Five minutes later as the yacht steamed toward chore and the couple on the bridea the Prince wrapped hat ame around hfc bar Wg white an wm one op and put RaMer they sailed port to a of Philadelphia who had followed her on to the yacht from the liner As they neared the big stone entrance to the port Grace and the Prince embraced again Then with one aim still around his pointed to his QH racky It to at HIV flf DM WtD W The was thronged with tourists newsmen and of Monacan schoolgirls wearing red and white national in their hair Kven the weatherman provided a welcome fit tor a princess The was almost glassy Aim and tt was a bright day do spite a lew clouds and awes to mrti tha tt mt la the ana around thr Con- art nw planet tut Hie pumping failed li mg tins community water officials promptly fied IVs audit i who arrived it a Thuis coriot the water About pupils at given iin uled when Supt Knitter cancelled 1 officials the pump shall working is iak lo correct liv for several i evidence wells showers hasn't a diop of to No Change On Weather Menu Cloudy Skits High In 50s Due Friday it will be more of the same for Southwest Iowa Cloudy skies and high tures in the Mi's will brine an extension of conditions ed into this Thursday A hich pressure centered in South ed the Thursday A degree morning low and n few very sprinkles of mm were the main effects A near Vi forecast for the afternoon To Clear Briefly Skies should clear briefly Thursday sriH the Bureau and will drop to the lower Ws The it Council Bluffs was just T degrees under Sioux City's state high of The cloudy skies all sections of parched lown day but the measurable moisture was limited to n few Scattered showers fell In the northwest corner before light 11 Inches Below Normal The pressing need for moisture was spotlighted hy a Weather announcement that Iowa rainfall in the 11 month ended March 31 was more thun 11 inches below normal The Bureau said that a ciency of 40 per cent of the average annual rainfall for the state in the nnd were predicated for The lowest rending was at t Authorize Purchase Of Waterloo Line WASHINGTON p The Inter- state Commerce Commission Thursday the land anil Illinois Railroad companies to huy the Waterloo Kails A Northern Railroad which operates miles of mam line track in eastern lima The consideration in cash and assumption of liabilities including Waterloo's outstanding mortgage will amount lo slightly more than two million dollars Waterloo is now powered line linking ar Kails Waterloo and ids The new owners propose to convert its operations to standard power Rock Island and Illinois Central have formed a new Waterloo Railroad Co to effect the purchase and operate the line The purchasing railroads will ad- vance 200 in equal shares to the Waterloo company in exchange for all its capital stock The present stockholders of Wa- Cedar Northern have almost unanimously voted to surrender their for about a share after which the old company will be liquidated The Waterloo line connects with Rock Island and Illinois Central tracks st many points in us op- territory Quito Nebraska Post LINCOLN V Keller candidate for the Legislature in the 19th District resigned M director of the license plate factory nt the Men's Re- He had held me plate factory Job 16 years and was In state M altogether farm WASHINGTON AT Congress farm issue more into IH a features he In an all-out rebuff for by first House ami Senate final approval to a a I m i predicted veto Adlai Urges Ike To Sign Measure Perfect But Will Help Steven sad President Ki should sign the aim v nt to him hy Congress lie said thai while it was not j IK rlect the will help re- j tin M a fair income to the eis of basic and the ttank may provide H partial solution to the surplus problem Form Pressure President of the three national called upon President Thursday to sign new m hill despite the to him They are the National mid the National Farmers Union hud used their to to pass thp measure The American Farm Bureau winch worked against the his not yet offered to the White House I Jut Its president diaries B man said Wednesday the ure ill considered and would return to thp discredited programs contributed to much of the present glutted ket situation he features drange Rationing Certain In Any Future War DKS almost certainly will find selves under rationing con- and other If there is another Col Robert J Unties of the Army here iv told an at the tion il Conference that such controls are most people believe they would tie necessary to control in- Col and six other faculty of the Industrial Col- ic of the Armed Forces are ns lecturers at the con- which runs through April W Some 246 military officers and att Wednesday's Comdr R dm told the group that if there is another war the States will not have the time it had in the last one to dispatch men and terials lo the fight ing fronts It will he a of logistics the art and science of backing up the war effort said Retrace Part Of Route CITY A delegation of from Yankton SO Thursday was retracing part of the River route covered by the explorers and lark Members of the attired in explorer's costumes were rn route here to join m the formal owning of the tion and Show They planned to breach their boat and an over- night stop before completing the trip Another group of from Iowa and Nebraska will sail up the Missouri to Sioux City Friday morning and arrive in time to meet the emissaries from the north ceremonies part of the theme of the 1956 exposition emphasising the development of navigation on the river and Hie creation of the new and Clark Lake at Gavins Point near Yankton About ex- petted attend the three-day show Friday Saturday and day PONCA rmr ca Nothing to who Inves Just a guy GRAND JUNCTION A holdup Wert him lie Cote Hev declaring it was tins lull or nothing he would it vacationing at gusta woid that slill not think the hill the test of n of Agriculture Renson snid he The one ma lor vision sought H a soil hank to uy el's subsidies of MS much as a for not plant Ing cropland commodities ready in surplus Rut it includes return to higher price supports for this as well as other features which also would raise price and Henson have opposed such moves contending they will vate the by building up more surpluses leaders made a last-ditch effort in the House to the hill more to liking They lost 181 losing 27 votes on the test while picking up 14 Democratic ones The House then passed thp 217 with 48 Republic ins and 35 defecting lines The Senate promptly tmk up the hill agreeing to Vote after hours of debate Passage there was on f VI Ti Joined with 35 in ing for the nic mist if were 31 Republicans and 4 Demo crats put the lip to There n chance thai Congress would over ride s veto Beyond saying the chief tive not regard it as a lull White press secretary C declined to spec at Augusta on the chances of a veto Sen Alken chief admin lieutenant In con gress he is confident reject tile mens urp for half a dozen or more Thp question was whether 1 Swallow his oft stated ples and approve n hill which en- said would vide as much as three billion lars In benefits thi syear for faimers whose income has been declining steadily for five years or 2 Veto thp hill with a prospect that will approve no and thus face the voters in on the basis of the present farm Win Have 10 I Eisenhower will in days In which to act from thp time the reaches him officially When that will he was not tain An exact official copy must be printed signed hy House and Senate officials and delivered to the White House Normally this requires several days on the measure would cast doubt on son's status as the farm Canine member Benson's farm program has been to the Minutes after the Senate hid acted Benson issued a si voicing deep and Farmers have a right to be the does not them the sound help they have expected and deserve Sen Capehart he voting for the as the one way to get some relief for the American farmer Sen Aiken called thp measure this monstrosity and said If would be a disservice to the ers if it should be enacted into law In Best Sen Lyndon B Johnson of said the was in the best in- of farmers House OOP Martin of Massachusetts the a many thing and like the play of toe same name It is intended to be a bom office attraction Rep of Kansas senior GOP member of the Howe who split with the on the HO only em an
